Beispielsätze

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.

Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.

He pointed; and far down the avenue of yews we saw a white figure advance—a dim white figure, which held something dark at its breast.

Still Knitting M adame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees.

This main avenue was not more than eight or ten feet wide.

The procession moved along the main avenue some three-quarters of a mile, and then groups and couples began to slip aside into branch avenues, fly along the dismal corridors, and take each other by surprise at points where the corridors joined again.

Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled webwork of names, dates, postoffice addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed (in candle-smoke).

You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.

The blinds of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar.